Kraut-cutter.



. PATENTBD Nov. 6,1906; D. B. HUPFMAN. KRAUT CUTTER.

'APPLICATION FILED MALI?. 1906.

DANIEL B. HFFMAN, OF VVHI'IE, IDAHO.

KnAUT-GUTTER.

Specification of `Letters Patent. i

'Patented Nov. c, 1906. y

\ Application filed Marchvl7, 1906. ,Serial No. 306.663.

To a/ZZ whom, t ivi/Ly cion/cern: i j

Beit known that I, DANIEL B. HUEFMAN, acitizen of the United States,residing at `White, in the county of Kootenaiand-State ofIdaho,haveinvented a new and useful Kraut-Cutter, of which the following is aspecification. j

This invention relates to'vegetable-cutters, more particularly todevices Iof this class employed for reducing cabbage and like vegetalesin the manufacture of kraut, and has for its object to improve theconstruction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters,is illustrated the perferred form of the embodiment of the inventioncapable of carrying the same into practical operation.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 2 is a transversesection on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail of aportion of one of the disks and one of the cutters. Fig. 4 is a detailin section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1 with the conical feed-blockremoved.

The improved device comprises a'support- .ing-frame 10, having atransversely-disposed shaft 11, with disks 12 13 spaced apart thereon.The disks'are provided with radial apertures 14 15, in whichcutter-knives 16 17 are adjustably supported by clamp-bolts 18 19, thecutting edges of the knives projecting inwardly or toward each other.

Supported upon the frame 10 and extending between the disks 12 13 is abase member 20, upon which a conical guide or feed block 21 is supportedbetween the disks and at one side of t e shaft 11 or so disposed thatthe cutter-blades pass the lower outer sides of the guide-block in asubstantially horizontal position.

The disks 16 17 are inclosed by a casing 22, having vertically spacedguard-plates 23 24, disposed relatively close to the inner faces of thedisks 12- 13 and with apertures 25 26 therethrough next the guide-block21. The apertures thus form means of communication between the spacebetween the guard members 23 24 and the cutting-knives, while the guardmember 21 .forms the bottom of the space intodouble-hopper form to causethe material to be pressed against the knives.

The casing 21 is provided with a feed-hopper 27, and depending from thecasing 21 is a discharge-hopper 28 to. convey the material from thecutters.

Mounted f or rotationeupon the frame 10 is a drive-shaft 29, having acrank 30 at one end and a drive-pulley 31 at the other end, the pulleyadapted to operate the shaft 11 by a belt 32 and a smaller pulley 33. yY The material to be reduced is fed throu h the hopper 27 into the s acebetween t e plates 23 24 and is cause to automatically pass through theapertures 25 26 and against the moving knives, where it is rapidly cutinto thin slices and escapes through the hopper 28.

The mass of material in the feed-hopper causes a constant pressure ofthe material against the cutting-blades and requires no furtherattention from the operator after being placed in the hopper, andwhen-the material is reduced in quantity to the last portion theinclined sides of the block 21 will cause these small particles to bealso fed to the knives, so that nothing remains in the machine.

The shaft 11 may be driven by'any power, and the machine may beconstructed of an required size or capacity.

A transverse cavity 34 is formed' between the conical guide member 21and the base -member 20, and slidably disposed within this IOO areoperated the plates' 35 36 are simultaneously moved toward or away fromthe disks 12 13, as may be required'.

The levers will be provided with means,

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' 1. In a device of the class described, a supporting-frame including alongitudinally-extending bed member, a shaft mounted transversely ofsaid frame and of said bed member, disks spaced apart upon said shaftand at opposite sides of said bed member and provided Withradially-disposed cutters, a receptacle carried by said frame and Withits side Walls between said disks and With feed-apertures therein, areversely-inclined bottom member Within said receptacle and bearing u onsaid bed member and with lateral cavities between the bed member andbottom member, gage-plates slidable in said cavities, and means foradjusting said gage-plates relative to said cutters.

2. In a device of the class described, disks mounted for rotation andspaced a art and each provided with radially-dispose cutters my own Ihave hereto aiiixed my signature 3o in the presence of two Witnesses.

DANIEL B. HUFFMAN.

Witnesses:

SIDNEY W. ROGERS, S. L. Knorr.

